Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Not Get Bored With Worship [Hikam 118]
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Because the word Allah has been made such that it's not
complicated to stay, there's not much of the mouth that has to be
employed to even say it. It literally comes
without having to make much a movement. And there's some
scholars like Sheikh Zakaria come they refer to Allah here are they
our grand shake in a sense?
I think he was in a coma or unconscious or something. And he
was so used to saying Allahu Allah who throw out in his you know,
every every breath that even when he's unconscious, that's what he's
doing. Now that's amazing. You are guaranteed that you are guaranteed
the name of Allah your death. However you die, I guess right?
Because you're constantly saying that unless you in place, you
can't say it. But that's the amazing thing for your tongue to
be constantly in your heart as well and your breath imagine it to
be constantly with the name of Allah subhana wa Tada
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Rahim Allah, we on Hichem or Hecla wisdom number 118. PAGE 112 For
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This is a really very simple,
everyday,
everyday kind of wisdom for pretty much things that happen to us each
day, he says this, and this is something that will put into
perspective, our Sharia for us, and our
what Allah subhanaw taala tells us to do, and how he's told us to do
it, and why there are different forms of worship. So this is what
he says, he says, Since Allah knows of the existence of
weariness on your part,
since he knows that you can get bored easily, and that you can get
weary and tired, easily. He has varied the acts of obedience for
you. So the different ways that you can be obedient to him, he's
made them
a whole variety.
And since he knows of the existence of impulsiveness in you,
you can be very impulsive and do things without thinking them
through, do things in haste, try to get things done without due
consideration, or fulfilling all of its etiquettes or required
requirements, you just want to get it done. You want to paint a wall,
just slap the paint on without, you know, proper job. So since he
knows that, of the existence of impulsiveness in you, He has
limited his obedience is to specific times. So there are times
you're not allowed to pray. There are days you're not allowed to
fast as much as you'd love too fast. So that eventually your
concern, be with the performance of the ritual prayer, not with the
existence of the ritual prayer.
That's a bit of a deepen, so that your concern becomes the
performance of the ritual prayer, and not just the existence of the
ritual prayer.
In other words, it's not that you just have to
produce it quickly, or the prayers done, but rather, I must establish
it properly.
For not everyone who prays performs well. That's what he
said. Not everybody who prays performs well. I think the
simplest example of this, get a builder in a plumber in an
electrician, and is a massive difference between builder to
build a plumber to plumber, and electrician, to electrician and in
every job is like that. There's some who just want their money
just wants to do the job. They have no consideration for how it's
going to look for how they could do it better to take the challenge
and do it
in the best way possible.
You know, with an act of goodwill.
And masala, there's some who can actually really think it through.
And we'll take the challenge and we'll do it through, and we'll do
it. I don't even want to say do it as if it's their own job because
there's some people don't even do their own jobs in a shoddy way.
They just want to get it over and done with. So it's the same thing
with prayer. It's a very similar thing with prayer, but the prayer
relates to all of us.
So that's what we're going to look at today. This is really telling
us like the secret of why Allah subhanho wa Taala has made there
to be so many different types of obedience is in worships. Because
he knows that he's created us to get bored easily to get weary
easily, how long you want to read Quran for? Right? Eventually, you
want to stop reading Quran, you want to go and do some natural
prayer. When you finish doing that, you want to just sit down
and relax. So he's given you worship to relax with literally
just sitting down saying a lot. When I want to relax, all you have
to do is you draw your breath in with Allah. And then you exhale
with who? Allah Who, Allah who without that noise, of course,
silently, you just literally relaxing.
And it's just so relaxing. Because the word Allah has been made such
that it's not complicated to stay, there's not much of the mouth that
has to be employed to even say it. It literally comes
without having to make much a movement. And there's some
scholars like Sheikh Zakaria, can they be Rahmatullah here? Are they
our grand Sheikh, in a sense,
I think he was in a coma or unconscious or something. And he
was so used to saying, Allahu Allah who throw out in his, you
know, every every breath that even when he's unconscious, that's what
he's doing. Now, that's amazing, you are guaranteed that you are
guaranteed the name of Allah your death, however, you die, I guess,
right? Because you're constantly saying that unless you're in that
place, you can't say it. But that's an amazing thing for your
tongue to be constantly and your heart as well. And your breath,
imagine it to be constantly with the name of Allah subhanaw taala.
So there's many ways of, and if you don't even want to say
anything with your tongue, you just sit and contemplate with
Allah with your heart. Just think about life, and death. And what
I've been able to do and what I've not been able to do, my
shortcomings, how great Allah's Mercy has been. So you can
literally just relax and just be doing that if you want to.
So Allah has made it. And if you want to take an action, you can go
and assist somebody, you can go and help somebody, there's all of
this thing, all of this, if you do it for the sake of remembering
Allah subhanaw taala. So this is what he says.
So that's what he says.
Now it is part of Allah subhanaw taala is benevolence and his
kindness to us that he's obligated worship. And he's recommended
worship, encouraged worship, and he's made it in all of these ways.
He knows that you're not going to be patient with just one thing, or
just happy with just doing one thing. So what Allah subhanahu wa
taala does, is that Allah subhanaw taala.
Sometimes, he allows you to witness whatever, you know, Allah
subhanaw taala does, actions are everywhere. Allah has handiwork.
Allah has beauty, and His Majesty, his craftsmanship, his design is
everywhere, wherever you go, if you want to look at it, if you
want to focus on it, it's there. It's everywhere, right? So Allah
subhanho wa Taala allows you to look at that. However, there's
some people who won't notice that they will go about but they'll
focus, you know that they focus on the apparent things, they don't
focus on who's behind it. So they'll see the beautiful trees,
and they'll appreciate them, but they won't think that is Allah who
had created them. The Look at the beautiful products and cars and
whatever else he may be, but they won't go back to saying that oh
Subhan Allah what Allah subhanaw taala has, you know, given humans
the ability to do, so that's fine. If you're at that stage, Allah
subhanho wa Taala may then in implore you in His service of some
sorts let you do some service to the Diem.
However, because Allah subhanho wa Taala knows that you might just
get tired of cleaning the masjid one day, or doing some other
service, right? Then that's why he's allowed you to do many
different types of services. You might you might get tired by
praying.
Noah fill prayer Tarawih prayer, right, the headship prayer. So he
says, Okay, I'll give you some other forms of worship.
Generally, human beings, they get tired when something's done over
and over again. The only thing that you have to do every day is
your work, even though it's repetitive. That's why I don't
ever find
a job or a career that's going to be repetitive or ask the people in
that field.
I found a lot of accountants they get tired of counting.
Don't know. I mean, I've a lot of accountants are they get tired of
doing the job, some people may enjoy it.
So always find an open career. Are you an accountant or something?
Are you tired of it?
So always pick something that and you know, the best thing is, I
mean, I guess everybody can't do this, but it's something that
you're going to be fulfilling something with, that you can
actually contribute to society, there's always a new challenge.
There's always a new assistance, that you're providing a new
Hyndman that you're doing, it's not a dead end job. Subhanallah
that would be the best May Allah grant us all something like that.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala then allows you to do many different
types of obedience is so get tired of doing Salah sometimes go to his
dhikr when you don't want to do remembrance, then start reading a
book of fake or hadith of zero, whatever. And likewise, and then
even in vicar there's not just one type of vicar. There's multiple
forms of liquor, there's multiple there's multiple formulas of
liquor, there's multiple types of ADKAR and remembrances.
So that's why you'll inshallah you'll keep, that's why we
generally suggest, you know, on those days where you have to spend
a lot of time like in Arafa, or in hajj, or on the 27th night when
you want to spend the whole night, then it's a good idea that you
have a list of different things you can do otherwise, you get
tired and it's like what do I do next? You've got a list Okay, a
bit of dirt. I'll do a bit of Salawat on the Prophet sallahu
Salam, I'll do a bit of dua, I'll do a bit of this, I'll do a bit of
this then it kind of gets your day through and mashallah you be
productive.
So, this is what they say they say, the IBA to my nationality for
everybody to mine, the sheltering, one oh colored, aluminum
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your worship and obedience with vigor and refreshed, you know, and
being fresh about it. Even if it's small, even if it's little is is
greater and superior than the worship that you do inlays with
laziness, a weariness, because there's a lot more heart and
eagerness in the first one. What in Cassatt even if that lazy
worship is a lot, because the quality is not there.
Lisa Libra to be cut throttle haste, we're in the middle of
April to be with you they will manner
The point is not
that you can perceive a lot that it just looks a lot. What's the
what should be considered is the substance and the element and the
quality. May Allah give us that.
So now Sheikh is a rook is one of the great spiritual scholars. He
says Allah subhanaw taala has allowed us to do, has essentially
in stated for us different types of worship for three different
reasons. Number one, as the source of mercy for us, so that we can
gain comfort with different ones and not get tired of any
particular one, move on to another one. Number two,
Allah subhanaw taala wants this is a proof against us. Look, I didn't
give you just one form of worship that you get tired every day,
there's not one type of food, right?
So you have no excuse to say that I was tired.
So even if you're knocked out from work, and you're tired, you can
come home and just do a bit of meditation, which will actually
refresh your child.
And number three, he says, just so that you could be connected to
Allah, and connected to his remembrance in multiple ways just
made it easy. You can connect wherever you go.
Wherever you are, whatever state you're in.
So that Allah subhanaw taala has bounties upon you. And Allah
subhanaw taala is benevolence on you is complete by that he's
making it easy for us out of His kindness, and your worship becomes
easy. Now, he then says the next point, if not, Allah makes the
next point. He says that one of the reasons why sometimes you get
weary and bored about certain things and tired of certain
things, is because you don't think things through and you do things
with impulsiveness, that could be one of the reasons because you're
so eager to do something. So you just do it and finish it off.
Sometimes it could be that as well.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala now has not allowed you to do
every type of worship at all times. Of course, there are
certain things that you can do at any time, but with certain very
important worships like solid, you have to be in a state of purity.
You have to have pure clothing pure place will do
face to Qibla certain times of the day. And other times it's not even
allowed when the sun is rising or setting or when the sun is at its
peak at noon. It's not allowed at that time. So that's why he says
and he knows of the existence of impulsiveness in new so he has
limited these worships to specific
Good times. impulsiveness has three problems creates three
problems in anything that you do, that could be your worship, or it
could be your work, there are three problems. Number one,
eventually, you give up, you don't want to do it, you don't feel like
doing it anymore.
Number two, you become bored. And it becomes a burden. Either you
the first one is you either abandoned or you just don't want
to do it anymore, I can't do this job anymore. So I'm going to leave
Judo or whatever, right? You know, I'm gonna leave my job, I'm gonna
go and do something else.
Well, number two, you just get keep keep getting bored. So your
productivity gets less, right?
At tackle, you just feel heavy about doing this, you don't feel
good about doing it anymore. And number three,
you don't do it properly, because you're not fulfill all of its
rights, because you're not you're impulsive about it.
Now, when you restrict things to certain times, right, that's why
they say work, if you want to be productive, give yourself time to
work and don't get disturbance in that.
So there's three things number one, when you have particular
times and you won't just be impulsive.
Number two,
if you didn't have a time, then you could procrastinate. A lot of
people do that. You got jobs, you've got tasks. And one of the
major forms of procrastination, even if you're a productive
individual, is that you will try to do the easier, more comforting
jobs than the more difficult ones, even though they're at the top of
your list. And their deadline is sooner, but you'd actually more
likely want to do the other easier, less intensive tasks. So
that's why certain worships are obligated at a particular time, so
you can't keep putting them off. That's another benefit of timely
time appointment. Number three is that if you have to do it, then
you have to do it at that time. And you won't then abandon it
totally. So you won't even delay you won't abandon it. And the
reason why this is particularly a point is because generally in the
world, our knifes will take over. Because when the shaytaan takes
over and our knifes takes over, then you don't want to do the
worship.
So the first part I was talking about is a person who wants to do
the worship, they do it impulsively. Now, as long as we've
got an obligation, or had you better pray salaat, than at least
that prevents us at least that gets us into that habit that you
better pray so that you can't abandon it completely. Otherwise,
I've got a meeting, let me abandon my prayer. I don't feel like it
today. Let me abandon my prayer. Now, the other reason
why Allah subhanho wa Taala does all of this for us, makes it very
variable allows us to do it certain times and pray, but other
times regulates our timing is because he wants us to do it
fresh. He wants us to do it excellently with axon and
beautification, and not in some kind of haphazard way, just to
fulfill the obligation. That's the main point he's saying. So that's
why he says, so that your concern be with the performance, for
example of the ritual prayer, not just with bringing into existence
in some way, you could probably tell a painter by the types of
paint brushes they use.
You just get a massive brush and just slap it on?
Or do you have a multiple of brushes where you can do the
refined edges and so on? Right? It's that kind of an idea, I
guess. Now, for a true believer, because solid affords them a
communication with Allah subhanho wa taala, as we were discussing in
the last session, right? We were discussing the focus with Allah
subhanaw taala, and the communication and the interaction
and the proper engagement in our prayers. So if you once you've got
that now, you're not allowed to pray right now. You're waiting for
the next prayer. So your eagerness is improving, your eagerness is
expanding. Like that's why today hedge is easier in one sense. But
it's actually a lot more difficult. In another sense. It's
easier in the sense that you could get there in seven to 10 hours,
you could do your last day of work, you know, you're full of
Work, Work work, you finish you got to flight, five hours after
your work, you've you've thrown your you've got your stuff
together, and then within 10 hours or so you're in hajj and you have
to get into the mode. Whereas the people before they will take 34567
months to get there. So with every step, it's all preparing for that
journey. All that difficulty just contributes to it. I think the
only way you can do that now is if you probably take a car or a bike
and go for Hajj. Right. Or you take some trains or something but
with a flight I guess it's just you're just going to be there. Not
to say that you can't get yourself engaged you can but
I'd like to try
that one day, just take a few weeks to get there. Not a few
months, I guess you don't have that luxury but a few weeks, just
try to see how high G has been for 1400 years, until the century.
That's how it used to be months to get there
for most of the people of the world
so then eventually your knifes, you really want to do it, the next
prayer time you just can't wait for it your next prayer time.
And then when you do it, you really enjoy it. As opposed to if
you had to just keep doing it all the time. That's why Allah subhana
wa Tada the prophets Allah Assam said in Allah her lion through era
sewer ecom wala Illa Malecon, whether Kim Yong Zulu Illa Kulu
become ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala doesn't look at your forms, and
the postures you're doing and the actions that you're doing, doesn't
care about that.
He looks at your heart, where is your heart, when you're doing
these action, the point is not the movement of your body. That's
that's no point. It has to be of a certain movement, obviously,
otherwise, you'll every will make up their own prayers. Right. So
that is there that does have to, but that's not what Allah wants to
look at. That's just basic requirements. It's really to see
how humble your heart is and how submissive your rule has become.
So that's why he says that, so he wants to make sure that your main
focus becomes I'm establishing this new prayer for Allah.
I'm not just putting down a few sujood and few RUCO, you want to
try to fulfill all the rights of solid, the external rights and the
internal rights. And that actually starts from wudu.
How good is my will do.
It starts from there, because that's all preparedness for it.
So he in Arabic, he uses the word iqama. To solar, as opposed to
just solid. A karma means establishing the prey like putting
a foundation and building it up. So the way the karma it means to
make something stand comes from the concept of Tr, tr means to
stand, right. And karma means make something stand up erect
something. So you are erecting a proper pray in every aspect of it,
not just the form of it, but the internal aspect and every other
aspect of it as well.
Because that's why he says he says that law, would you the Salah,
mean lady karma, if you just suddenly bring us all out into
existence without actually properly erecting it with all of
his substance and everything, then it's going to be made on how we're
doing, it's going to be desolate. It's not going to have any spirits
in there. For here, it will recall that the Quran is right, I'm
praying man, he's saying that it's going to be more closer to being
worthy of punishment is saying like I'm praying at least there's
a lot of prayer, people who don't pray.
You saying that when you rise up to that level, your standard
becomes different.
Your standard becomes different. So yeah, you want to be at that
standard, because you're closer to Allah, you just need to rise don't
take this as like, Hey, I should go back to the other standard.
Like at least I'm better than those guys who don't even pray at
all. They say that if you're an established a prayer, you have to
make sure you fulfill all of its obligations, all of its limits all
of its conditions. And you have the main thing of the prayer is
that you must try to maintain and develop that internal connection
with Allah in your prayer.
That's the only way you're going to actually have a proper prayer
is if you develop the internal connection with Allah subhanaw
taala. Because the outer form of it, that's everybody can do. But
the struggle is how you internally connect as well. At the same time.
Omar Abdullah Abdullah Aziz, you know, he was a hottie for about
two and half years.
In which time he you know, he got people so used to worships and
prayers, that the talk on the streets.
Today the talk on the street is about investments and that kind of
stuff. Because everybody's into that, in that time. And the Khalif
before him, that was the discussion on buildings were
Solomonic no Abdulmalik. Well, he didn't Abdulmalik they were into
buildings and
real estate and assets in there, right. A number of the most famous
Muslim built buildings of the Muslim lands they built by well he
didn't Abdulmalik like some Hadith before Omar Abdulaziz, the compact
of Sahara the German Ummah, we have a number of the others and
they still standing today Mashallah.
Good thing in a sense, but the focus in on Ragna Abdulaziz it's
time to focus on the street became Hey, brother, how many colors have
you done?
You know, where are you? Have you finished your colors yet?
SubhanAllah. top down approach this
and that. I knew that already. But when I read this, it was just put
in perspective on what the law says. He wrote to all of his
governors in the different towns and cities of the world. He wrote
to them He says in a hammer are more eco friendly a solid
For me, you know he's the he's the Hadith so he's telling them make
sure that you know you're the lawyer is you know abided by and
make sure you do this and make sure you do that. He says, The
most important matter for me that you need to fulfill is your Salah.
Wow, they're supposed to be looking after the face of the most
of you sending them your salad should be the best in the meaning.
The most important thing must be your salad. Why? Because he
explained he says Furman Hatfield haha. Well half of Alia whoever
preserves the prayer and is regular upon the prayer in the
proper way, not just putting out the form for Hua Lima Siva, he is
going to be very protective and diligent about everything else.
Because if your Salah is proper, then that means you're doing it
for Allah and everything else and then you gain a certain level of
modifier of Allah, then you're doing everything else for the sake
of Allah. So that means everything else you're also focused on. You
will learn how to focus you learn how to do things beautifully. You
can't do a Salah beautifully what can you do beautifully woman to ya
and anybody who squanders and waste the prayer for Halima Siva
Alia, and he's probably going to be less concerned about anything
else, which is to the benefits, you know, of the Muslim world.
Then after that, he ends this by saying for Morocco, Lumo Salam
makishima. Not every person who's praying is an Establisher of the
prayer. This is the really interesting part.
As I explained to the word econo and you know in the Quran,
constantly the wording used for establishing praise a karma to
Salah mochi masala, mochi masala, rugby, Gianni mochi masala tea
when in reality, our Lord make us of those who established the
prayer erect the prayer properly and from my
and from my progeny. So constantly whenever is talking about a
praiseworthy encouragement of praise talking about a karma to
Salah never solid on its own.
Hardly ever right when you say accom have fallen on Daraa who
it's an Arabic term that the person has erected the house it
means he's completed it
otherwise we just erected the shell that is not a house yet
still a shell. In one Hadith it says that manlam 10 mullum 10 Who
Salah to who Anil fascia you will Moncure limiters it who mean Allah
He elaborated than
anybody who's solid does not
prohibit him prevent him from immoralities and wrongs.
Then it's only going to take him further from Allah.
Quite a sensitive statement that is so is like why are you praying
them? While he is definitely better than not praying, believe
me, but it just means you just enhance your prayer. Now. I don't
joke to yourself that you're praying and you're getting
something out of your prayer because you're not. So the purpose
is get something out of your prayer.
In another version in sorry, in another narration it says
if somebody prays for them, ut marucho Aha, Allah su Judah, but
does not complete the record and suju because that's where a lot of
people mess up. Because it's bang, bang, bang, right? He's go down
and up, down and up in the solid understanding you can't I mean,
you have to breed something so and it's why do you have to read the
Fatiha for the coins, some people so you do stand for a while, but
then it's Riku and sujood, where people just think that's just like
a little, you know, little little thing on the side you do in your
prayer. For as long as I've stood and then sat down said salaam
that's very important. The ruku and sujood is just so he says
whoever doesn't do that properly, wha hoo ha ha and does not
complete the
the reverence the internal feeling, see the record so God is
an external action right? But the reverent feeling in the heart to
Allah subhanaw taala whoever doesn't complete that Lefort the
Salah is rolled up by the angels. Gamma EULA for Thor will Haluk
just like
you have this old cloth that eventually is worn and you don't
want is roll it up
and throw my Eudora will be Howard thrown back in his face so he says
fall Musa Luna caffeine mashallah, there's lots of people who do
salats Well, mochi Munna Khalil, but those who properly erect the
prayer in a proper sense are less for a halal ashba He cathedra what
a lulu because Colleen, so the people with the former lots, but
the people with the hearts a few. That's why Abu Bakr Ibn Al Arabi,
Alma NFPT says Rahima hula, I've seen and he's a it's an
observation of his in his life. He says,
among those people who are regular in their prayer, I've seen 1000s
and 1000s and 1000s that I can't
Can't count them all.
As for those who are regular on their prayers with proper Reverend
fear and focus on Allah subhanho wa Taala
he says I've only seen five people.
That's a bit.
That's that that's a bit disheartening. Right? If that's
what he's seen, then you know, hopefully he's just exaggerating.
Right Allah subhanaw taala make it easy and Allah make us among among
the people who do this Sheikh Abu Abbas al Morrissey, he wrote the
Allah when he says that, and this is interesting, he says, look in
the Quran, every place in the Quran, where Allah subhanaw taala
has praised those who pray, praised the salah Dewas
he always nearly always uses the word mochi mean Salah it's not
just Musa loon see in Arabic the word Salah usually means to pray
and Musa Lee is the one who does the prayer. And so you could have
you could have used that the one who does the prayer but he says in
every place he wants to praise the person praying he didn't say more
suddenly he says mochi masala the establish of the prayer to add
that additional element that you better establish it properly
or if it's not in leukemia, Salah then some other word that
indicates the same thing and he gives a few examples so little
Bacara Versary and Lavina you may not want to be looking at BYU Ki
Moon a solid right at the beginning. Those who believe in
the unseen and who established the prayer in Surah Ibrahim verse 40
Rob be Gianni Mookie masala at our Lord make me of those who
established the prayer not just make me have the prayers.
In surah Tauba verse 18, what a Karma salata and who has
established the prayer, not just who Salah
he could have said that, and so till Hajj, verse 35, while Makini
solid, those who established the prayer when Allah subhanaw taala
discusses those who are negligent about their prayers or heedless in
their prayers are not focused in their prayers, when he talks about
them when ar 15 For example, for example, in sortal, my own Allah
subhanaw taala says, For a little little mousseline, Lavina home and
Salah T Ahimsa Hoon will be to those prayers, those performers of
prayer,
who are negligent about their prayer, there are three ways of
developing reverence and humility in the prayer, the focus in the
prayer, there's three levels and you have to go to one then the
next one, then the third one, trying to jump to the third one is
a bit complicated because it's a training. And I don't know if
we've even started but may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to start
this the first one he says is who how often one kisser in whatever
learning, which is the reverence of fear
and humility and submission to Allah that I am in front of Allah.
I owe this to Allah, I am in need of Allah and I'm submissive to
Allah. That's why I'm doing this even getting that much is the
first step. And he says, We're who are birdie was so hurt. This is
for the regular worshippers and those who are trying to focus away
from the dunya away from the dunya and akhira. Like, that's probably
already a high level for us basis. That's actually the first level
because without that, you just, it's just the form, right? Number
two, he says is when your reverence gets to
magnifying Allah is beyond just being submissive, it's, I am
exalting Allah when you say Allahu Akbar, you mean it's in your
heart. At that point, there's nothing greater than Allah.
Otherwise, when we say Allahu Akbar, Allah is greatest, do we
actually genuinely feel that Oh, is money greater sometimes or our
jobs are greater or something? Who should oughta have Iman Wahiba in
wage earning, this is the reverence which is full of
magnification of Allah, in all of Allah like you know him now you
know how great he is.
And you are understanding his majesty. He says, this becomes the
stage of those who are not your normal worshiper, but they've
actually now started really focusing. They are the Sally
Keane. They have a bit of a thicker regimen that they do. They
focused on the path. They've made it a career for themselves.
And the third level is who Farah Hinn was so rude in what Berlin
this is when you start to enjoy that prayer.
Right? In the sense that when you get into that prayer, you get a
pleasure out of it.
You get happiness, you get excitement.
And you get attention from Allah subhanaw taala is actually
communicating
No, you have to build up to it. A lot of people they don't feel this
they've heard about it isn't what's the point of praying I
don't feel that brothers there's stages before that we make that
effort first then you become professional then you start
enjoying right? You're gonna start getting the enjoyment you're not
even made an effort you're not showing Allah your seriousness
yet. So he says that this is when the salad becomes a joy of your
eyes. You know the prophets Allah Islam said that
Cora to inf is solid, the joy of my eyes is in prayer. Like how
does he do it for so long? Until his feet get swollen and he's
still doing it and he's enjoying it and Sahaba enjoy you know, you
read the file for like Viola ama law stories of the Sahaba enjoying
it, because they've reached that stage.
Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us to reach that stage. So that's all
we have time for today. There's a bit of a bit more discussion about
the pray inshallah we'll try to finish that off next time in sha
Allah. Allah subhanaw taala allow us to have a beautiful prayer and
allow us to ascend to these levels. Allah hoomans Salam, Salam
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here Allah Allah have mercy on this ummah. Yeah Allah have mercy
on this congregation. Yeah, Allah forgive us all. Yeah, Allah draws
close to you. Allah Ya Allah remove the barriers or Allah
remove the obstacles, remove the hindrances of Allah remove the
distractions of Allah we start off in the morning and we want to do
good. We want to become your servants and your slaves of Allah,
we want to become your lovers. But by the end of the day, we've lost
this zeal. Many things have come in between other things compete
and have taken its place. Oh Allah, we asked you for focus and
sincerity. We ask You for purity and Taqwa of Allah, we ask for
your from your generosity. We ask from Your Grace, from your
benevolence, from your kindness, from your compassion, of Allah, we
are Your servants at the end of the day of Allah regardless of who
we are what we are of Allah, we sit here today because you have
given us the ability to do so. Oh Allah if you have allowed us to
sit here today, and to remember you to discuss things about your
religion, about your devotion and worship. And now finally, you've
allowed us to raise these hands to you of Allah, accept our doors of
Allah accept our doors of Allah give us what we have in our
hearts, what we really want from you. And Allah remove everything
else which is a form of distraction of Allah, you've given
us abundantly of this world. You've given us more than so many
others in this world of Allah do not make us of those who now use
this to forget you, and who these things become a burden for, oh
Allah make these things. A source of inspiration for us to assist in
your deen of Allah, Allah, whatever material means and other
facilities and things you have given us to assist. And to
dedicate them for your deen of Allah accept us for the service of
your deen of Allah protect us, our children, our families, our
progeny until the day of judgment of Allah protect those around the
world, in Palestine, in India and in many other places where the
oppression has started or is continuing and our Allah make us
of those who serve this ummah and who can do something, something
for the better of this ummah, of Allah bless all of those who are
here and who listened today. And all those of Allah who want to
come close to you, oh Allah bring us all close to you. And Oh Allah,
except from us and send your abundant blessings in our
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and grantors his
company in the hereafter. Subhan Allah be corroborating IOC Fong wa
salam O Allah Marcelino Al Hamdulillah.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know to listen to lectures, but you need
To have this more sustained study as well as local law here and
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